Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-30
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Eight thousand people are fed daily
by one New York restaurant

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Sunday newspaper was published.
Sidney Woollett, the elocutionist, is
said to have memorized more than
three hundred thousand verses OF
poetry.
Baron Nordenskiold, the explorer,
is meditating a Swedish Antarctic ex-
petition with the assistance of King
Oscar.
| Henry Richner, of Vail. Iowa,
weigs 270 pounds, is seven feet four
and three-fourths inches high, and is
only twenty-five years old.
In 1866 10000 barrels of rice were
raised in this country, and in 1886
49, 900 barrels. South Carolina pro-
duces more than any other state.
Millionaire Corcoran, who does more
for Washington than all the other mil
lionaires Jumped together, pays taxes
on So, 100, 900 worth of property.
There is more or less money in En-
glish politics for some people, Mr.
Schnadhorst having just been present
ed with 10000 in recognition of his
services to the Liberal party.
Mrs. Magnusson, the Icelandic lady
who is now lecturing in England on
the habits and home-life of her COM
patriots, claims that Lett Erickson was
the real discoverer of America.
The normal weight of the fashion
| able dinner or reception dress is from
| thirty to forty-nine pounds. while the
tailor-made dress varies from ten to
nineteen pounds. And yet woman is
called the weaker vessel.
The Montana Wool Groa0er estimates
that there will be nearly million
sheep sheared in that territory this
year, producing at least 100000
pounds of WOOL, 100000 pounds
more than the product in 1886
Gen. Charles P. Stone, the gallant
Union officer and the engineer under
whose supervision the Bartholdi statue
was erected, who died recently in New
York, left his family in straitened cir
cumstances, and an appeal is made to
the public in their behalf.
Some of the dealers in fish in Wash
ington market, New York city, have
bottles of cod-liver oil suspended in
front of their stalls, and generally
underneath in a tank big live cod
"gasping in horror, as if at the sight
of the essence of some ancestors
liver"
Experiments having shown that guns
have once more triumphed over armor,
the governments of England. France,
and Russia are actively laying in a
supply of steel profectiles, of which
great quantities have been ordered.
Steel projectiles will pierce the thickest
armor afoat.
Referring to the addition of bath
rooms to the luxuries of railroad
travel, the Buffalo Commercial COM
mends the improvement, but thinks
cit might be very awkward, though.
for man in collision or the upset
ting of car to be caught in the usual
bath-tub undress
The Duke of Argyle, father of the
Marquis of Lorne and Lord Colin
Campbell, is a small man, with big
head and the face of mud-carter.
He has mass of bushy white hair,
his shirt is always frayed at the collar,
he invariably wears rusty frock coat,
and trousers five inches too short.
In a book called Courts of Europe"
recently published in Berlin, the
author says that it is the Marquis of
Lorne who firts and not Louise. The
story hitherto told presents the oppo-
site view. The Berlin writer says
Louise is consumed with jealousy be-
cause of Lorne's attentions to other
ladies.
James Blake, of st. Paul, has
very fine cats-eye stone which was
once the property of George Ill. Of
England. The ring came into the
possession of Blaikie's family by legal
process, together with a star and gar
ter set with the same stones, and at
one time the property of the English
monarch.
The famous Irish steeple-chaser Lib
in 1879, and who has started in the
same race nearly every year since
then, is now doing farm work. When
geldings become unfit for racing their
fall is a great one. In this country
Checkmate, once a great racer, is used
as one of an omnibus team, and Ia
role, the hero of two continents, is
used as saddle-horse.
Dan Rice, the once celebrated clown,
who made and lost several large for
tunes in the circus ring, now lives in
Cincinnati, old and poor, and depend
ent on the charity of friends for liv-
ing. Rice's first appearance in public
was as u pugilist, and in 1928 the
Pennsylvania Legislature adjourned
to witness boxing contest between
H9OrO1 X pnSpff and Dan Rice.
Cocoanut-growers say that each tree
in a grove produces one nut a day, or
500 in one year. Owing to the great
height of the trees it is impossible to
| pick the nuts, and they are allowed to
hang till they fall. The natives gather
them up and carry them to the husk-
ing-machines, where the nuts are strip
| ped of their thick outside shells. A
nut is most delicious just after it has
| dropped from the trees.
In renting houses at San Francisco,
Cal, the rent charged is according to
the number of rooms. Brokers say
| that room should rent at So and Sc
| per month. Thus five room house
Il